HAMILTON – The winner of the 2008 Cartt.ca Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers Cable-Tec Expo editorial internship is Christian Isla of Clearcable Networks.
Cartt.ca, the Canadian cable, radio, television and telecom industry’s leading news source, each year offers one member of the Ontario Chapter of the SCTE the chance to attend the annual Cable-Tec Expo, the premier cable telecommunications technical trade show.
This year it is being held June 24-27 in Philadelphia.
This is an annual opportunity aimed at those technicians or young engineers whose company might not normally send them to this conference. We began in 2007 when Cogeco Cable VOD engineer JR Graterol covered the show in Orlando for Cartt.ca.
As members will recall, we ran an essay contest earlier this year and the winning author, Christian Isla, has won a trip to the Expo which includes flight, three nights accommodation, food, and a media pass to the conference, courtesy of Cartt.ca.
His essay on our topic: "Fibre to the Home: How far away are we? Will we ever get there? Why or Why not?" was judged best of the bunch by a four-person panel of SCTE Ontario board of directors Laura O’Hare, Boris Eventov and Lawrence Watson and Cartt.ca editor and publisher Greg O’Brien. It is published here.
Of course, there is a catch. Christian be working while in Philly – covering the show as a freelance journalist, reporting on what he sees in the sessions and hears from suppliers he’ll meet in bylined articles that will appear on Cartt.ca. The press pass gets Christian on the trade show floor and into any conference sessions and will provide Cartt.ca readers with a viewpoint from someone in the technical trenches, as it were.
This is an opportunity worth several thousand dollars to Christian and Clearcable Networks – and one we hope many SCTE Ontario members will take advantage of in 2009, when Cartt.ca offers the same opportunity to chapter members.
Thanks to all those who entered essays this year and watch your in box for 2009!
